I've often harped on Apple for its policy regarding jailbreaking, but of course, Apple isn't the only company engaging in such practices. We already talked about Motorola, and now, we have Sony - already a company with a checkered past when it comes to consumer rights. As it turns out, Sony don't want you jailbreaking your their Playstation 3.

And here's an interesting scenario. Lots of threads in this story have ended with some variation of "you own the device but not the service". Personally, I think the Playstation market plain sucks, about the only aspect of PSN I use is the game hosting. So, would it be illegal for another company to provide an alternative to PSN? I'm sure the terms of service would say so, but ToS aren't laws, and if you aren't using their service, what do their terms matter?

It would be interesting to see someone start a competing network to PSN, since Sony missed the mark in so many places with their consoles this time out.

SCEA needs to tell the rest of Sony to stick it where the sun don't shine, the Ps3 was billed as a computer, as such they should have had the basics that others have talked about available at or soon after launch, all of Sony's media software should have been ported imediatly, Youtube, Pandora et al.

All of Sony's music, movies and back catalog of first party games all at launch, full support of indie game development should have been a top priority. So what it pisses off EA, they aren't going to jump ship on a market as large as Sony provides since they aren't about anything but volume rehashes of their existing franchises.

The music should have, at the very least been released in .mp3, they had a chance at tying every Sony product into the console and really they should have as it would have strengthened their Apple like cult following that I've seen in some people when it comes to Sony products.

But nope, idiot project managers, DRM bound idiots and skiddish CEOs killed what should have been a turning point for them and would have likely ended up being a death nail in the XBox.

It would be interesting to see someone start a competing network to PSN, since Sony missed the mark in so many places with their consoles this time out.

SCEA needs to tell the rest of Sony to stick it where the sun don't shine, the Ps3 was billed as a computer, as such they should have had the basics that others have talked about available at or soon after launch, all of Sony's media software should have been ported imediatly, Youtube, Pandora et al.

All of Sony's music, movies and back catalog of first party games all at launch, full support of indie game development should have been a top priority. So what it pisses off EA, they aren't going to jump ship on a market as large as Sony provides since they aren't about anything but volume rehashes of their existing franchises.

The music should have, at the very least been released in .mp3, they had a chance at tying every Sony product into the console and really they should have as it would have strengthened their Apple like cult following that I've seen in some people when it comes to Sony products.

But nope, idiot project managers, DRM bound idiots and skiddish CEOs killed what should have been a turning point for them and would have likely ended up being a death nail in the XBox.

You should really read about the minidisc (the sole highly reliable numeric storage medium available to everyone in the last few years, among other things), if you don't know this story already. History repeats itself.